Jay David Miller
@jaydavidmiller.bsky.social
English Prof. Early Americanist. Quakerism.
Pinned
I've officially signed a book contract with @psupress.bsky.social for my manuscript, Quaker Jeremiad, a literary history of Quaker agrarian writing in early America.
I'm very grateful to Tristan Bates and the rest of that editorial team for their support. Looking forward to getting this in print!
I'm very grateful to Tristan Bates and the rest of that editorial team for their support. Looking forward to getting this in print!
Went out and bought what I presume to be my last six-packs of Rogue tonight. RIP, Dead Guy:
www.pastemagazine.com/drink/craft-...
www.pastemagazine.com/drink/craft-...
Another Early Craft Beer Pioneer is Gone as Oregon's Rogue Shutters its Doors
You can argue that Rogue struggled to keep up with the craft beer times, but it's still a blow to lose a member of the Class of '88.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Went out and bought what I presume to be my last six-packs of Rogue tonight. RIP, Dead Guy:
www.pastemagazine.com/drink/craft-...
www.pastemagazine.com/drink/craft-...
I've been appreciating this poem in the midst of the autumn rains here in the Pacific Northwest: harpers.org/archive/2025... @harpers.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I've been appreciating this poem in the midst of the autumn rains here in the Pacific Northwest: harpers.org/archive/2025... @harpers.bsky.social
Not all of us have forgotten this century . . .
📣 New Video! I was SO excited to be joined by the absolute LEGEND that is Ben Pink Dandelion to talk Quaker History. We talk all things 18th Century today. Quietism, Plain dressing and transatlantic Quakerism. Plus my overreaction to one of Ben’s answers…
#quakers #history
youtu.be/rBGiCacHgis
#quakers #history
youtu.be/rBGiCacHgis
Exploring Quakerism's Forgotten Century w/ Ben Pink Dandelion
YouTube video by Quake It Up
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November 8, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Not all of us have forgotten this century . . .
"the broad-brims"
November 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"the broad-brims"
Had not heard of this new bio:
A new biography outlining Anthony Benezet’s crucial role in energizing and shaping an emerging abolitionist movement got Paul Buckley to wondering why Benezet is not as well-remembered among Friends as John Woolman.
REVIEWED: Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist
Would Quakerdom’s slow progress to eventually condemning slavery have happened without Anthony Benezet’s extraordinary work?
www.friendsjournal.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Had not heard of this new bio:
I've officially signed a book contract with @psupress.bsky.social for my manuscript, Quaker Jeremiad, a literary history of Quaker agrarian writing in early America.
I'm very grateful to Tristan Bates and the rest of that editorial team for their support. Looking forward to getting this in print!
I'm very grateful to Tristan Bates and the rest of that editorial team for their support. Looking forward to getting this in print!
October 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I've officially signed a book contract with @psupress.bsky.social for my manuscript, Quaker Jeremiad, a literary history of Quaker agrarian writing in early America.
I'm very grateful to Tristan Bates and the rest of that editorial team for their support. Looking forward to getting this in print!
I'm very grateful to Tristan Bates and the rest of that editorial team for their support. Looking forward to getting this in print!
"To be human is, it seems to me, to care about the origins and sources of things, but we know very little, it also seems to me, about what most deeply shapes us."
blog.ayjay.org/revival-retr...
blog.ayjay.org/revival-retr...
revival, retrospection, assessment – The Homebound Symphony
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October 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"To be human is, it seems to me, to care about the origins and sources of things, but we know very little, it also seems to me, about what most deeply shapes us."
blog.ayjay.org/revival-retr...
blog.ayjay.org/revival-retr...
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Giles Calvert (d. 1663) was a prominent printer in 17th century England known for his association with religious dissenters and radicals. His shop, the Black Spread Eagle, was near near St. Paul's Churchyard in London. His shop was a hotbed of radical and egalitarian thought. (1)
September 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Giles Calvert (d. 1663) was a prominent printer in 17th century England known for his association with religious dissenters and radicals. His shop, the Black Spread Eagle, was near near St. Paul's Churchyard in London. His shop was a hotbed of radical and egalitarian thought. (1)
Don't usually post about baseball, but this was a prescient @williamfleitch.bsky.social article about how the Guardians could catch the Tigers back on August 12 when their chance of winning the division was 6% according to @fangraphs.com. They took lead today.
www.mlb.com/news/guardia...
www.mlb.com/news/guardia...
Here's how the Guardians can make a historic run at the Tigers
On July 17, 1978, the Yankees lost to the Royals, 9-7, in 11 innings; the winning pitcher was Al Hrabosky and the losing pitcher Goose Gossage, in case you were wondering the facial hair situation tha...
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September 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Don't usually post about baseball, but this was a prescient @williamfleitch.bsky.social article about how the Guardians could catch the Tigers back on August 12 when their chance of winning the division was 6% according to @fangraphs.com. They took lead today.
www.mlb.com/news/guardia...
www.mlb.com/news/guardia...
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The Quaker Theological Discussion Group (of Quaker Religious Thought) is excited to share our 2025 call for papers on the theme: "Quaker Public Ministry: History, Practice, Challenges." See qtdg.org for further details.
August 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The Quaker Theological Discussion Group (of Quaker Religious Thought) is excited to share our 2025 call for papers on the theme: "Quaker Public Ministry: History, Practice, Challenges." See qtdg.org for further details.
From my Met daily art calendar today: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Claude Monet - Bouquet of Sunflowers - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
<b>The Painting:</b> While living with his family at Vétheuil, a small suburb on the Seine northwest of Paris, Claude Monet took up floral painting both outdoors in the garden and indoors with cut flo...
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September 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
From my Met daily art calendar today: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
"At times, you will sense no response. You may feel an emptiness, darkness or frustration. Do not despair, this is part of the process of becoming empty for God. Persevere."
dailyquaker.com/2025/09/beco...
dailyquaker.com/2025/09/beco...
Becoming Empty for God
"The use of silence or solitude as a doorway to the Divine has a long history in the Christian tradition. Jesus often went away to pray alone. (Mark 1:35; Matthew 14:23; Luke 5:16). Early Christian mo...
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September 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"At times, you will sense no response. You may feel an emptiness, darkness or frustration. Do not despair, this is part of the process of becoming empty for God. Persevere."
dailyquaker.com/2025/09/beco...
dailyquaker.com/2025/09/beco...
Looks like a great issue!
New issue of Quaker Studies! (it's still summer, right?) Featuring peer reviewed articles on Quaker schools, religious authority, allegations of Roman Catholicism, emotions in minutes, and Virginia Quakers moving towards antislavery. quakerstudies.openlibhums.org/issue/1330/i...
Quaker Studies |
Issue: Issue: 1(30) Summer 25 (2025)
quakerstudies.openlibhums.org
September 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Looks like a great issue!
"A few years ago I said that vindictiveness was the moral crisis of our time. But some (not all, but some) of our rage has burned itself out. The passive acceptance of utter cruelty . . . has become the most characteristic feature of our cultural moment."
blog.ayjay.org/the-ai-busin...
blog.ayjay.org/the-ai-busin...
the AI business model – The Homebound Symphony
blog.ayjay.org
August 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"A few years ago I said that vindictiveness was the moral crisis of our time. But some (not all, but some) of our rage has burned itself out. The passive acceptance of utter cruelty . . . has become the most characteristic feature of our cultural moment."
blog.ayjay.org/the-ai-busin...
blog.ayjay.org/the-ai-busin...
Encouraging:
The Shaker population has risen by 50%: www.npr.org/2025/08/19/n...
The number of Shakers in the U.S. rises to 3
A new person has joined the last active Shaker community in the U.S, bringing the Christian, communal, and celibate group to a total of three. They once numbered in the thousands.
www.npr.org
August 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Encouraging:
David Bentley Hart: "I have a great affection for George Fox and considerable admiration for many Quaker figures throughout history . . . . If all Christians were more like the Quakers at their best they would also be more like Christ."
davidbentleyhart.substack.com/p/q-and-a-13
davidbentleyhart.substack.com/p/q-and-a-13
Q & A 13
French prose and Greek lexica, poetry and poets, VN and PW, Quakers and running dogs of capitalism, baseball and dinosaurs...
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August 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
David Bentley Hart: "I have a great affection for George Fox and considerable admiration for many Quaker figures throughout history . . . . If all Christians were more like the Quakers at their best they would also be more like Christ."
davidbentleyhart.substack.com/p/q-and-a-13
davidbentleyhart.substack.com/p/q-and-a-13
From my Met daily art calendar today: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Auguste Renoir | Bouquet of Chrysanthemums | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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July 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
From my Met daily art calendar today: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Well, call me ignorant.
Have never read Moby Dick and decided, for reasons, that this summer I would. Became instantly obsessed with "Etymology" and "Extracts," the actual first line about the pale usher and of course the sub-sub librarian. And have starting reading some scholarship on same.
Have never read Moby Dick and decided, for reasons, that this summer I would. Became instantly obsessed with "Etymology" and "Extracts," the actual first line about the pale usher and of course the sub-sub librarian. And have starting reading some scholarship on same.
June 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Well, call me ignorant.
Have never read Moby Dick and decided, for reasons, that this summer I would. Became instantly obsessed with "Etymology" and "Extracts," the actual first line about the pale usher and of course the sub-sub librarian. And have starting reading some scholarship on same.
Have never read Moby Dick and decided, for reasons, that this summer I would. Became instantly obsessed with "Etymology" and "Extracts," the actual first line about the pale usher and of course the sub-sub librarian. And have starting reading some scholarship on same.
Great to see @newsberg.org, "a two-year-old hyperlocal digital news outlet serving Newberg," my hometown, featured in the @columjournreview.bsky.social!
www.cjr.org/analysis/ore...
www.cjr.org/analysis/ore...
Pioneering Payback
The potential of the Oregon Journalism Protection Act.
www.cjr.org
June 4, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Great to see @newsberg.org, "a two-year-old hyperlocal digital news outlet serving Newberg," my hometown, featured in the @columjournreview.bsky.social!
www.cjr.org/analysis/ore...
www.cjr.org/analysis/ore...
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@psupress.bsky.social is having a 2-week sale on its Christian studies books www.psupress.org/two_week_sal.... The New History of Quakerism books are in this sale. Get them while they're hot and relatively affordable! #Quaker #history
Christian Studies Sale
www.psupress.org
June 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
@psupress.bsky.social is having a 2-week sale on its Christian studies books www.psupress.org/two_week_sal.... The New History of Quakerism books are in this sale. Get them while they're hot and relatively affordable! #Quaker #history
Looking forward Jon Fosse's newest: www.newyorker.com/books/this-w...
Jon Fosse on Writing as an Act of Listening
The author discusses his story “Elias.”
www.newyorker.com
June 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Looking forward Jon Fosse's newest: www.newyorker.com/books/this-w...
"Whenever I see the words cascade down my computer screen, I get a sinking feeling. Do I really have to read this?"
hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
ChatGPT Is a Gimmick
AI offers a tempting illusion to students—and evidently to some teachers.
hedgehogreview.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:07 AM
"Whenever I see the words cascade down my computer screen, I get a sinking feeling. Do I really have to read this?"
hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
Great thread. It's amazing how understudied and potentially misunderstood Gurney is:
My #PhD task this week is to summarise the thought of 19th C evangelical Quaker Joseph John Gurney, specifically his theology of sin/salvation. Most modern commentators on Gurney seem to think he deviated from, and therefore betrayed, his Quaker heritage but I'm not seeing it... 1/
May 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Great thread. It's amazing how understudied and potentially misunderstood Gurney is: